Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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Jacksonville State University students today attend lecture classes with as many as fifty people, never realizing that the institution's earliest graduating classes were not even as large. Moving in masses in the modern atmosphere prevents such thoughts, and. always in a busy rush, collegians realize little of the complete alteration in student lifestyle that has occurred in the past one hundred years. The wide range of curriculum today reflects extensive change since a group of twenty students [page 15, lower right) met for a woodworking class in 1980 and 16 young ladies (page 14, upper left) met to improve their do- mestic agility in a 1913 sewing class. It is a certainty, however, that the student of today is searching as was that one of the early twentieth century. Of the 368 graduates who crossed a stage in Pete Matthews Coliseum and received a diploma in April 1983 there was not one who did not share with the student of long ago a common search for knowledge, for experience, for a feeling of purpose in life. The campus is much, much larger, and the faces are not the same, but it cannot be denied that the Jacksonville student is always in search of the higher goals and aspirations included in the college experience. J5U is

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